The Sum of All Fears: We Now Know What’s in Obamacare

DJH: The vast majority of Americans cheered the night Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy’s old senate seat in Massachusetts. Everyone thought he was the 40th vote that the country desperately needed to stop Obama’s socialist takeover of the healthcare industry.

Unfortunately, as we all now know, Obama, Pelosi, and Reid used a sleazy parliamentary move to pass this unconscionable pig in the dead of the night.

"It's so exciting -- we'll have to pass it (heh, heh, heh) to see what's in it"

And who can forget the immortal words of Nancy Pelosi in a rare moment of voracity:

“It’s going to be very, very exciting, Congress has to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it, away from the fog of controversy.”

Now We Know What’s in it — It’s Worse Than We Imagined

The Joint Economic Committee minority, led by U.S Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas and Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, have created a detailed “organization chart” that displays a bewildering array of new government agencies, regulations and mandates.

“For Americans, as well as Congressional Democrats who didn’t bother to read the bill, this first look at the final health care law confirms what many fear, that reform morphed into a monstrosity of new bureaucracies, mandates, taxes and rationing that will drive up health care costs, hurt seniors and force our most intimate health care choices into the hands of Washington bureaucrats,”said Brady, the committee’s senior House Republican. “If this is what passes for health care reform in America, then God help us all.”

Of course, Brady is a member of the evil republican party, so he could just be making stuff up because he’s a racist who hates Obama. Take a look at the org chart for yourselves and reach your own conclusions:

This chart is tough to read, but you can download a PDF by clicking HERE and zoom into all of the devious government intrusions.

Obamacare Only Looks Worse Upon Further Review

Kevin Hassett wrote a great piece on this subject at Bloomberg and his analysis is absolutely frightening:

The new law creates 68 grant programs, 47 bureaucratic entities, 29 demonstration or pilot programs, six regulatory systems, six compliance standards and two entitlements.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been granted the authority to make judgments that can’t be challenged either administratively or through the courts.

Obama’s controversial recess appointment, Donald Berwick (whom Republicans are calling the rationer-in-chief), will run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where he can experiment with ways to use administrative fiat to move our system toward the socialized medicine of Europe, which he has at times embraced.

Closer to Home

Based on the administration’s own numbers, as many as 117 million people might have to change their health plans by 2013 as their employer-provided coverage loses its grandfathered status and becomes subject to the new Obamacare mandates.

The Congressional Budget Office predicts that premiums for a number of families who buy their insurance privately will rise by as much as $2,100.

Hurting the Elderly

To pay for this expansion, the bill takes $529 billion from Medicare, with roughly 39 percent of the cut coming from the Medicare Advantage program. This represents a large transfer of resources, sacrificing the care of the elderly in order to increase the Medicaid rolls.

For all this supposed reform, you, the American taxpayer, can expect a bill to the tune of $569 billion.

Front and center among the new taxes is the 40 percent excise tax on those lucky people with so-called Cadillac health plans.

There is also a new 3.8 percent tax on investment income, which will even hit a small number of home sales, those that generate $250,000 in profit for an individual or $500,000 for a married couple.

Great News: 71% of Missouri Voters Reject Obamacare

In what is clearly a “shot across the bow” for Obamacare, 71 percent of Missouri voters backed a ballot measure (Proposition C) that would prohibit the government from requiring people to have health insurance or from penalizing them for not having it.

This is really good news for most Americans and bad news for Obama and his democrat cronies. It turns out that Missouri is not some crazy red state, but rather widely recognized as the Bellwether of the American Voter. In other words, no other state in the union better represents the political mood of the country than Missouri.

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Has anyone seen the “talking points” distributed by the AMA describing how doctors should explain the features of ObamaCare to their patients? I think they resurrected George Orwell to write it.
Just wait until all the docs who thought they could just “opt out” of participating find out they will be nationalized. That will do wonders for their attitude when you have to see them.
I hate to say: “I told you so…” but I did.
Up with Cucinelli!!